Gary Lineker has taken the Dizzy Goals Challenge — 2015's football-themed answer to the Ice Bucket Challenge — and it's genuinely hilarious. Strangers getting a bucket of ice in the face? Gimme an ex-footballer making a fool of himself any day.*The challenge requires participants to circle a football roughly a dozen times, then attempt to take a penalty into an open net with another ball. And as you watch it you think, 'hey, this is Lineker, he knows how to bury one. He'll be fine.'But no, Gaz runs completely the wrong way, then meanders vaguely in the direction of the ball like a heavily tranquillised cow stumbling through a fence. Then he strikes, and the old magic has abandoned him completely. Lineker — England's sure-fire penalty scorer —scuffs the ball hopelessly wide and falls flat on his back.Of course, he's being a good sport. Perhaps the most endearing thing about Lineker is that he seems genuinely happy to muck in and laugh at himself, though that's probably pretty easy when your picking up cheques to present BBC's Match of the Day and Champions League coverage on BT Sport. The only people making more than him are the players he showcases in his uniquely smooth, velvet owl style.The Dizzy Goals Challenge is being run by Global Goals, a charity looking to implement sustainable development projects around the world. Gareth Bale also had a go, and was just as rubbish as Lineker.*Both are intended to raise proceeds for charity, so actually VICE Sports has no favourite. We dig all charitable giving.
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